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Original Usenet message from rec.arts.ascii, 11 Oct 1994.
Talk: Normand's Script Font

Talk: Normand's Script Font

Normand Veilleux speaks; he who has ears, let him hear!
  [Me]
> >figletize it anyway, screw the special-letter adaptations.
> 
> What!!!  And desecrate the font!  :-(

You're right, that would never do.  You put in a lot of work making
those duplicates, I'm sure.


> If someone is willing to figletize the font you should consider
> adding the punctuation marks.  Perhaps those of the Univers font
> will do.  The extra 26 lowercase letters could replace other
> characters in the ASCII set like the ten digits for example.

> Once everything is in place, it would be possible to write a
> little C program that would take the text and substitute the
> odd characters where the special set of lowercase letters is
> needed and pass that string to FIGLET.

> Would this work ?  Is someone willing to take it from here ?

Excellent idea, Normand.  Yes, I think it would work ... 78 (=26*3)
letters leaves 17 other characters plus a space, which would probably
be enough (who needs a Figletized %, for example?).  Sometime when
... wait!  Wouldn't it be almost as easy just to write a specialized
Figlet clone for just this one font?  Well, I'll look into it sometime
and let you all know if I get anything.

Peter

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